Archive for category Art & Design
Under-Designed vs Over-designed
Posted by Administrator in Art & Design on February 9th, 2010
As design is becoming more important in everyday life, we sometimes decry what is under-designed. But when we look at the world around us, can we see certain relationships between what is under-designed and what is over-designed?
Here are some possibilities:
Wines With Architecture
Posted by Administrator in Art & Design, Food & Dining on May 11th, 2009
For many years, gourmets and wine connoisseurs have built reputations recommending which wines go with what foods, and many Americans have relished their acquired sophistication. But the Journal of American Rocket Science wants to carry this culture climbing to the next level.
Which wines are proper to consume with important architecture? When in Minneapolis, use this handy guide and impress your friends:
Target Tower on Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis
White Zinfandel. Both the wine and the architecture have a two-dimensional character.
Weisman Art Museum, U of M Campus, Minneapolis:
Merlot. Many well rounded tastes, bright finish.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis:
Any wine you have never heard of before, so you won’t understand what you are tasting.
Quarry Shopping Center, Northeast Minneapolis:
Woodbind. Made from fermented sawdust recycled from Home Depot lumber sales department.
Hennepin Avenue Bridge, Minneapolis:
Burgundy. A few spikes of high flavor but short delivery to finish.
Minneapolis Art Institute Recent Expansions
Any cheap wine easy to digest.
Guthrie on the Riverfront
Off-dry champagne. Opened for a short time to produce low fizz.
Ivy Tower
Petite Syrah with Vodka chaser. Diminutive but distinct taste notes overwhelmed by strong indistinct sensations.
Minneapolis Historic Buildings
Claret. Decorous taste hints, interior tannins, reminiscences of tobacco, all not long lasting.
Thunderbird Hotel in Bloomington
Thunderbird.
I-35W Bridge
Two Buck Chuck, from Trader Joe’s. Mild and smooth, but not what you would die for.
Guthrie Becomes Ikea
Posted by Administrator in Art & Design, Local on September 9th, 2005
Sometime after the new Guthrie Theater opens on the riverbank near downtown Minneapolis, a drama devotee may exclaim during a spate of cultural chitchat after attending an Ibsen play, “ It is remarkable how Hedda Gabler’s superfluidity as a mask for her hyperaestivation was so elegantly amplified by that sleek Ikea divan and floor lamp as seen on stage in act three.” Which could draw the response,” And that Ikea writing desk? I have to drive out to Ikea tomorrow to buy one.”
Will this happen, thanks to an Ikea upcoming deal with the Guthrie management to purchase branding rights for the theater? Did Ikea drive the idea for those dark blue metal wall panels that went on the building in its early construction? Soon, will we see those supersized bright yellow letters on the side of the building?
And where could this lead to? Will a deal with NASCAR put Pennzoil patches on Hamlet’s cloak, or a Firestone logo on a spoiler fin mounted on an on-stage Elizabethan carriage?
